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Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:26PM (#25785718)
Sorry, even after looking at those links and rereading your edited comment, I'm not sure I follow: How did it make things worse? Was it that "nothing even remotely political" was just way too broad?
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Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by dang on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:28PM (#25785735)
It turned every thread into a political battle and made every political side 10x madder at us than they already were.
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Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:40PM (#25785825)
Huh, that's unintuitive; thanks for explaining.

Edit: Oh, I wonder if it's a spillover effect; the amount of politics doesn't change, so having those threads on topic avoids spill over into other threads

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Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by tshaddox on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:49PM (#25785904)
It doesn't seem counterintuitive to me. Of course people on a discussion forum who want to talk about a thing and are suddenly told they cannot talk about that thing are going to be upset.
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Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by serf on Thursday January 14, 2021 @09:00PM (#25786003)
It turned every thread into a political battle and made every political side 10x madder at us than they already were.

given that HN isn't an analogue for the world at large, one wonders if this lesson learned on HN translates at all to what may happen elsewhere as a result of the ongoing corporate 'de-platforming' campaigns.

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